President Bush’s controversial “No Child Left Behind” act, which pushed schools to aim for high test scores in literacy and math (to the detriment of anything else, er, “some would say”) is coming under a new light with the new administration according to the AP.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is starting a 15 state tour, I swear, just to hear what schools and their students think about “No Child.”

Let me say that again:

President Obama is sending his Education Secretary around just to ask people, “Hey, is this working for you?”

“I don’t know if ’scrap’ is the word,” Duncan told reporters last week. “Where things make sense, we’re going to keep them. Where things didn’t make sense, we’re going to change them.”

While some education specialists have reported that “No Child” has put the spotlight on elementary school students from under-funded school districts, and garnered some degree of improvements, high schools — which have a 1 out of 4 drop out rate — have not changed for the better.

takepart by checking out the Network For Good: Keeping kids in school which reports “the mean monthly income for workers with a four-year college degree is $1,829 a month, compared to $453 a month earned by those without a high school diploma (Source: National Institute for Literacy).”